A Taste Of Honey

Salford 1959. Seventeen-year-old Jo is desperate to break free from her vulgar, wayward and man-hunting mother, Helen.

Resilient and feisty, Jo's instinct for survival and happiness leads her to a taste of honey when she falls in love with Jimmy, a black sailor on shore leave. Abandoned by her mother and left to cope on her own, Jo's courage is tested yet again when Jimmy returns to sea, and she discovers she's pregnant.

Geoffrey, a young art student, assumes the role of surrogate father to her unborn child. As their relationship deepens, Jo discovers that her independent spirit is both her torment and her salvation.

One of the most influential plays of its generation, A Taste Of Honey was written when Shelagh Delaney was only 18. After bursting onto the stage in 1961 in a production that took the West End by storm, the play later became a classic of British cinema.